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History, museums, traveling, trying.  

[ed-longshanks]

important psa

[soundlessdragon]

Awh, I always thought they were so pretty and had no idea they could be harmful

[christianmarvel]

Can someone transcribe this? The water is really loud.

[petit-bon-homme]

“Hey everybody! Here we are in the southern Appalachian mountains. We have a pristine Montane stream ecosystem, as you can see all around us here. I thought I’d make an educational video this morning. It involves this practice right here [gestures to rock pile]. As our national parks and national forests fall victim to human pressure, more than ever, this is something we’re seeing more and more of. Hopefully we can make this video go viral. This stream, as you can see around us right here, is a breeding ground for North America’s largest salamander, the Eastern hellbender. They can get up to 2.5-3 feet long. It’s part of our natural heritage in the eastern United States. When people do this right here - what they consider to be art - they’re actually destroying the breeding ground for the Eastern hellbender salamander. The Eastern hellbender will use flat rocks such as these to make nesting sites in these streams. So here’s what I would like everybody to do. If you care about our Montane stream freshwater ecosystems like this one around us here, when you see something like this, this is what I recommend doing: [kicks down rock pile]. Take the rocks, throw them back into the stream. The Eastern hellbender utilizes rocks like this. It actually feels pretty good to do this! [walks to other pile] This is not actually art, okay? This is destruction of our freshwater ecosystems. So I would like to encourage everyone: when you see this [gestures to second rock pile], do this! [kicks pile] I’d like to return our streams to their natural state for the organisms that live here. Thanks, and have a good day.”

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[doctorbeth]

Butter’s the dog

Yes, that’s his name, with the apostrophe. :-)

Butter’s the dog had a run-in with the family dog and definitely lost the battle – along with a leg, an ear, and his nose and muzzle!  Here are the diagnosis photos his family sent:

We started his treatment with a bubble bath, to remove saliva, clean out his wounds, and get down to his original fur color and texture for transplants later on:

Next he got restuffed, with his heart of original stuffing, to provide courage for the coming surgeries:

Butter’s was one of the lucky ones who I could find near perfect matches for his skin and fur.  So surgery proceeded well.  Here he is modeling some new nose options (post ear and leg attachment and muzzle reconstruction):

His family chose this one:

Here are a few of his “chubbiness testing” photos:

And here he is, just before he flew home last week!

His family wrote “he’s never looked better!”

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Christmas decorations by Tatyana A.

[luvchristmas]

Active cozy winter/Christmas blog ❄️💕

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I’m back! 24/7 Christmas

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I’m back! 24/7 Christmas

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I’m back! 24/7 Christmas

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[awrats]

this was supposed to be funnier than it actually came out 

[robotjiji-deactivated20190529]

youve done it! youve boiled being in your early twenties down to its bare essentials!

[jowboi]

Big mood

[buttpoems]

[erin-hart]

Who knows about Sally Hemings?

She was Thomas Jefferson's slave.

Called his "mistress," but how can you be a mistress when you were a slave, a child, and could not consent? Had absolutely no choice?

She bore him 6, perhaps as many as 8 children. He kept her locked in a basement room.

The room was recently unearthed, and DNA evidence has proven the lineage of Sally's children.

She was beteeen 12 and 14 years old when he started raping her, and Jefferson was in his forties. He freed the children that he had with her, but not Sally. Her daughter had to free her mother after Jefferson passed away.

This is not taught in schools. This side of history. We are supposed to consider the founding fathers as great men, fighting for justice and freedom, guided by God... when they are evil men. Selfish men who did nothing, save that it was for their own aggrandisement, personal benefit, and financial gain.

I would also like to add that Sally was Jefferson's dead wife's half sister. Sally's mother was raped by her owner, who was Martha (wife of Thomas) Jefferson's father.

These people left a legacy.

A legacy of entitlement under the most criminal of circumstances, and White Supremacist beliefs which pervade U.S. Society and Culture, to this very day.

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[ltjamesrhodes]

who could ever learn to love a beast?

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[ettadunham]

50 eps of 50 shows from the 2010s ↳ Doctor Who // 5x10 Vincent and the Doctor    *aired | June 5, 2010

“We didn’t make a difference at all.” “I wouldn’t say that. They way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don’t necessarily spoil the good things or make them unimportant.”